AP Saga: The Opposition Speaks Up

Opposition party DAP leader Lim Kit Siang has insisted that MITI Minister Rafidah Aziz should disclose the full list of AP recipients since she took over the MITI portfolio in 1987.

The list released by the Prime Minister’s Office was apparently only for the 6 months this year, and not for the past 35 years as earlier mentioned.
Lim was quoted to say:

Rafidah should demonstrate that she is not the biggest obstacle to the policy of transparency and integrity under (Abdullahs) administration by making public the full list of AP holders over the 18 years she has been the minister in charge of APs. If she is not prepared to adopt such publication as â€˜best practice for transparency and integrity, she should resign as cabinet minister.

UMNO Youth Deputy Cheif Khairy Jamaluddin has also said there was a big leak in the system and it had to be plugged. The release of the AP holders list was proof that the government could be transparent in this matter.

If so, why only release 2005’s list? Things are beginning to get very interesting. Would Rafidah still be in office after all of this is over?

After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.

Bla….bla….to Rafidah…DO YOU THINK THE PUBLIC IS STUPID HUH??? Please stop your sickening act in front of the media…you can swear on the quaran as many times as you like…cry as much as you want…NO ONE is going to believe…the crap storey that you are trying to sell to the public.Never profitted a single cent from the APs??…. You have nothing to hide??….Well F**K YOU!!!

The Naza Group, which has evolved into a car assembler and manufacturer, said it is on the way to becoming a successful Malaysian and global automotive industry player, thanks to APs.

Naza managing director Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin SM Amin said in a statement that the APs received from the Government had enabled his firm to create a cycle of new car-related economic activities and opportunities for Bumiputeras and non-Bumiputeras alike.

This year, he received 3,112 APs in the open category and 9,412 franchise APs.

Open permits allow the holder to import new and used cars from any source, while franchise permits are issued to companies with exclusive agency agreements with foreign manufacturers.

The group, which has been made a technical partner of Kia Motors Corporation of South Korea, has its own brand and has set up a RM300 million car manufacturing plant in Gurun, Kedah, which manufactures the Naza Ria and Naza Citra vehicles.

"In Gurun, 10 Bumiputera vendors are supplying components to our plant. Together, they create 4,000 jobs for those living in Gurun and the surrounding areas," Nasimuddin (left) said.

He said the group was finalising plans for a second car manufacturing plant, and had recently secured an agreement to manufacture the local variant of the Peugeot 206, to be distributed under the Naza brand.

The group is building a RM20 million Kia Academy as an in-house training centre to enhance workersâ€™ know-how and skills.

In a country where corruption and grafts are still rampant, its IMPOSSIBLE to practice transparency, accept the fact… whatever bid to control all these issues currently by our current PM, with the cabinets still holding their posts it will never be possible… who knows, they might be covering their asses as they're still around??? maybe they're still influential or just to save their face… THERE WOULDNT BE ANY MESS FOR THE PM TO CLEAN IF THE EX DID NOT LEAVE SHIT BEHIND!!!

Rafida only talk like she doing some thing to rakyat but the fact is do a rubbish to our Malaysians only earn a day living to work for!. But only do to some small majority of them that earn more but at the END IS LIKE PROTON WILL DIE SOON IF NOT DOING EQUAL TO MALAYSIANS.

TO AP holder there r happy cause of spoon feeding by government, we can see clear that AP holder all of them r only majority of there people that spoon feeding n not even no how to do business only sale there AP n think only there have it only. but how about Malaysians do there do equal!!?.

IF government r transparent why don't there TENDER there AP rather than point to who there bass friends can give under table money to them batter!!?, but at the end kill there own country n burden to rakyat n create only a job for rakyat to earn a day living only n say to news there r creating a job. do u think the job equal to there pay. why don't there become like us n we do it see how there like it !!!.

There r doing a rubbish con cap at the end it will like PROTON course 1 there own people to do n proud on it but kill there own n not benefit to country if there still protect there own kind. we all paying a TEX why don't tender it up the AP!.

yeah our actress have cries in public n smile the next day. can go hollywood or bollywood.

i think the 2nd day she laugh coz she got confirmation from overseas tat all her monies already transfered to another account and all her stake in another company had transfered. ( she goes on holiday to do this last week )

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